The first thing that I noticed from the exhibit was that China's default status in the world is "glorious," and that this glory comes from the Party. This is hardly a surprising claim, but its importance in the foundational myth is worth noting. Even the title of the exhibit reinforces this idea - The Road to Rejuvenation. From there we learned that foreigners' only interest in China was exploitation, and that the Republican gov't failed to live up to Sun Yatsen's vision for China.

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